AMD unveils Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 chips: up to 25% faster in gaming with reasonable pricing

AMD has just announced its new Ryzen 5000 processor lineup, built on the 7nm Zen 3 architecture. As before, a 16-core, 32-thread chip serves as the first-wave flagship, accompanied by 12-core/24-thread and 6-core/12-thread models. The Ryzen 5000 series brings plenty of new features that boost gaming performance and deliver impressive IPC gains, outperforming both AMD's older Ryzen 3000 chips and Intel's 10th-gen Core competitors.

AMD CEO Lisa Su and her colleagues showcased Zen 3's 25% gaming performance lead over Zen 2, and unveiled three Ryzen 5000 processors:

Four new processors will hit the shelves this fall on November 5:

• AMD Ryzen 9 5950X "Zen 3" - 16 cores / 32 threads up to 4.9 GHz, pricing TBA;

• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X "Zen 3" - 12 cores / 24 threads up to 4.8 GHz for $549;

• AMD Ryzen 9 5800X "Zen 3" - 8 cores / 16 threads up to 4.7 GHz for $449;

• AMD Ryzen 9 5600X "Zen 3" - 6 cores / 12 threads up to 4.6 GHz for $299.

To run the new Ryzen 5000 CPUs on current AMD 400 and 500-series motherboards, users will only need a simple BIOS update.

While core counts remain unchanged, the chiplet configuration has undergone a major overhaul. Instead of the previous design, where each CCD consisted of two 4-core, 8-thread CCXs with 16MB of L3 cache each, Zen 3 uses a single 8-core, 16-thread CCX per CCD with a shared 32MB L3 cache. This layout significantly reduces memory latency, boosting gaming performance for the next-gen chips.

Of course, we will have to wait for the actual release of the Ryzen 5000 processors to make a final judgment, but what AMD showed off today looks absolutely impressive!